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Dating
In real life, available singles don’t line up at your doorstep with no plans for Saturday night. Being single is hard work. Fun and frustration mix and mingle almost as much as your social calendar on the weekends. When the night-club-bus-stop-coffee-shop approach to dating doesn’t quite cut it, we’ve got the next best thing. Even though online dating appears in movies, television, books, and magazines, the idea of inviting it into your living room can be daunting. Each online dating community clamors for your attention. Between all the personals, profiles, and relationship opportunities, which one is the right one?
Each online singles community has its strengths and weaknesses. Some provide free online dating services, others require a paid subscription, and still others have some of both. At Dating-Cabin.com, we shortcut your research with a quick breakdown of our top picks for online dating: we build the porch, you open the door, and the available singles line up in your virtual front yard. For singles jaded by the club scene or singles just looking for another way to meet and greet, Dating-Cabin.com has the answers.
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Greatest Strength:
Established, reputable site with wide range of users.
Greatest Weakness:
Profile searching is limited by region with no recognizable method unless paying for a subscription.
Cost:
One month: $24.95
Three months: $19.95/month ($59.85 required up front)
Twelve months: $7.49/month ($89.95 required up front |
The Skinny on Singlesnet:
Proud of winning their Gold Star Award in 2004 for being the Number 1 Dating Site, Singlesnet.com remains a good, tried-and-true online dating service. Personals abound and profiles are rich with singles. Their site is quick to mention that they participate in the Better Business Bureau and that they strive to keep it that way. Thought without some of the bells and whistles of more exhaustive dating sites, Singlesnet.com still holds its own.
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Greatest Strength:
Uploadable and viewable video clips with the free account.
Greatest Weakness:
Comes across more as hookup-oriented than dating-oriented.
Cost:
Lavalife Mobile: $4.99/month
One month: $29.99
Three months: $18.99/month ($56.97 paid up front) |
Finding Love at Lavalife.com:
Lavalife bills itself as "America's Sexiest Dating Site" and does its best to live up to that. Available singles
cover the whole gamut of age, interests, orientation, and income; with searchable profiles and several communication options, dating and mating are not too far off at all.
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Greatest Strength:
Highly searchable and provides several options for communication.
Greatest Weakness:
Almost none of the communication options are available without payment.
Cost:
Three-day trial: $1.95; automatically bills you for full membership if not cancelled within three days.
Full Membership: $49.95 per thirty days, automatically billed.
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Meeting and Greeting at Mate1.com:
Mate1 has a sleek, sexy layout for sleek, sexy singles-for the most part. Because of its high searchability, it attracts all sorts of comers. Usually, the members of this particular online dating community seem to be those who are trying online dating as an additional option to their social life. Some also seem to join just to ride the latest fad. The age of the users contributes to this; though varied, Mate1 tends to attract younger singles.
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Greatest Strength:
Huge, carefully regulated and protected singles database.
Greatest Weakness:
Matching technology is very simple. No mobile syncing or other hi-tech options as with some larger dating services.
Cost:
One month: $25.99, billed monthly
Three months: $17.99/month, billed quarterly at $53.97
Six months: $13.99/month, billed every six months at $83.94 |
Perusing Yahoo! Personals:
“Dive into our Olympic-sized dating pool,” Yahoo! Personals says, and get the ball rolling in your online dating life. With a huge online singles community, Yahoo! remains an ever-viable option for the tech-savvy single. Yahoo! has built a wonderful online dating community with a very professional, accessible layout. Browsing through the site (and through the singles) is easy on the eyes in more ways than one,
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Greatest Strength:
Extremely well-rounded, protective, professional dating site with a six-month guarantee for romantic success.
Greatest Weakness:
Unless you commit a lot of time and money, it can take a long time to navigate through the many options it offers.
Cost:
One month: $34.99
Three months: $19.99/month
Six months: $16.99/month; includes Match.com Guarantee Program for an additional six months free if no match is found. |
Making the Most of Match.com:
Boasting over 15 million users with hundreds of thousands of success stories in a single year, Match.com reaches 37 countries with its online dating communities. Claiming that within six months you will no longer be cuddling just your pillow at night, this dating web site has established itself as the definitive online singles community.
When we read through Match.com, we definitely saw that they have been working toward perfection since they first began.
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